The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-04
REV. MIR. ATWOOD'S
THIRD SERMON ON CATHOLICISM

SNEf fllh. AlWUUDO
THIRD SERMON ON CATHOLICS,
At tho Disciples Church Last Eyeuing-H
Accuses It OF Arrogance and Persecu.
tion, aud Identifies l. with Things
Named In Daniels Prophecy. ..sa
Rev. Mr.. Atwood, pastor Of the Dlscl
Pies church, last night preached the thlr
Of his series Of sermons on the Romal
Catholic church. He took for his tex
Daniel vii, 1926. 2.
-"The fourth beast shall be the iourtl
Kingdom upon earth, which shall be di
verso from all Kingdoms, and shall drowl
tho whole earth, and ehall tread 1t dowl
and break 1t In piecea. And tho ten horn
ont OF this Kingdom arc ten Kings ths
shall arise, and another shall arise ate
them, and he shall be diverse from tn,
first, and he shall subdue these Kings
And he shallspeak great words against Ii,
Most High, and think to change times ant
laws; and they shall be given into hi!
hand for u time, times and the dividing O.
time. But tue judgment shall ait aut
they shall take away his dominion, to con
sume and to destroy 1t unto the ond."
The language OF the prophecies of Dan
iel, said MIR. Atwood, as Of tho other pro.
phecics Of the Old Testament, and also the
language OF the Apocalypse In the New, Ii
highly. fguratlve. In both the word
"beast is symbol Of q government, and
the word "horn" symbol tf power. II
also, sometimes, is used for government
but ottener signifies division in govern.
ment, or q fraction OF y broken govern.
ment. "King" and ."kingdom" are used
lnterchangably, and are applied to any
power Of government. "Watorsn and
seas" arc symbols OF "people and multi.
tudes and tongues aud nntions." So, when
Daniel say "lour great beasts arise out of
the sea, diverse, one from another" 1t
signifies that he saw four great govern.
ments arise among the nations. y. ..5,-
These game tour goyern,aents were
symbOlizad in the image that Nebuchad-
nezzar saw in hia dream, Of which Daniel
givea the description and Interpretation in
the eecond chapter. The frat OF these
vas Babylon, represented by the golden
head OF the image and by the first beast
In Daniela vision. This was succeeded
by tho double kingdom OF Media and
Persia; represented by the breast and
arms OF The image, and by the second
beast in the viaion. L. IL the ram with
two hofns in Daniel viii and \ was
succeeded by the third kingdom
in the image, and the third beast in
the vision, and was symbolized by the
gort with one horn iu Daniel viii. This
one horn was broken and four horns came
up in the place OF 1t, representing the tour
governments into which the kingdom OF
Alexander was divided. Rome succeeded
these three kingdoms, and is represented
BY the legs OF iron and feet and toes oi
iron and clay in the image, and by the
"Beast dreadful and terrible, and strong
exceedingly" in the vision. Tha ten toes
OF The image represent the ten fragments
into which the Roman Empire was brok-
en- and which are symbolizsd by the ten
horns OF the beast in the vision. -
Tho dream terminated with the setting
up Of the Kingdom Of the God Of Heaven,
Which should never be destroyed, and
which broke in pieces and consumed all
these kingdome, ''and it shall atand for
ever" : IA 4
Tho vision Of Daniel does not exhibit
this fifth kingdom, but exhibita the ten
poTerB or governments into which the
Roman Empire WAS broken by the setting
up OF the Kingdom Of God and which
were represented by the ten horns of the
beast. 5l : L.. z q 3s5
Three Of these ten horns were uprooted
by little horn which came mn among
them. propose to show this evening
that thia little horn and the Romish
Church are identical. II tbis church has
done the thinRa the little horn was to DO,
and il these things hsve been doro by no
othsr power, then the Church and the
Little Horn arc one and the same. The
prophessaya: "The ten hornsare ten Kiups
that nnali nr:se, and another shall arise
after them, and he shall be diverse from
the first, and he shall aubdue three
Kings" The advent OF tho Pope was alter
the breaking up Of this Empire into ton
parts, and at his instigstion the three
Kingdoms OF tho Vanda.s, the Ostrogoths
and tho Lombards, "weIe plucked up by
the roote, tho first by the army OF the
Eastern Emperor Justinian, and the last
by Pep!n, King Of Frsnce. 1t was sdiyerse'
from the other horns in that they were
al purely secular kingdoms; while the
Papacy was both secular and ecclesiastical.
The little horn had eyes like the eyes
Of man. Eyes here, are emblems Of
craftinsss, ssyacity, isrsishtedness and
cunning. The Mouth speaking great
things htly represents the monBtrous
arrogance OF lts pyetensons, which
were = sufficiently set forth in the
discouise week ago. His look ia
mora stout than his fellows But
it ia the look ouly. Intrinsically it was
always weak and feeble power. E d
"Ihe came horn made war with the
Saints and prevailed against them," ssff7-.f ff77l-.f
q No one characteristic OF the Romish
Church 30 perfectly identifies 1t with the
little horn ss tbis one. It's wars sgsinst
the professors Of Christianity have been
persissent, .relen tlese, cruel, inexcueable
and unceasigg. Its pereecutions Of Chris.
t'ans are its great distinguishing cbarac.
teriatic. rs % 583 :, 4. 80
A SAD STORY Il.
or u Woman's Despair and Her Mother.
E35E lT'4tH Wrongdoing. III ,!tE 4ta
About three years ago there lived in
Maytin'a Ferry man named CHARLES
Perry, With a wife sad family Of six:
children. Perry waa an iron worker in
the G:na mill, made good wages snd bore